I can type without looking at the keyboard

[Gorgon]

No really, I was talking about this with a guy from work the other day, how years of overexposure had led to reflex memory, and blind writing as it were, now, this is not the secret of the pyramids, not profound in any manner, but I just discovered I could do the same. Without thinking I had just stopped looking at the keyboard. Creepy.

[theslug]

Yeah if you take a middle school typing class you can do the same like me or anyone else.

[Krookie]

Yeah, that's really weird because I stopped having to look at the toilet before I sit down. It just happens now!

[thepixiesrock]

Yeah, so thatis pretty funny to some of us because most of us young enough in the states had to take typing classes in middle school. Of course, I didn't really do anything in that class, so I have to look at the keyboard when I type.

[Gorgon]

Typing class ....

 

Do you have standing class, and seeing class as well ?

[Krookie]

Typing class was actually pretty helpful for me. I don't type the way they taught me (using all 10 fingers and whatnot), but it did help me learn where the keys are.

[Guest The Architect]

They teach you touch typing and not look at keyboard typing stuff in high school computer classes over here. That was one of the things I did do in class, but playing cricket using paper balls, a bin, chairs and a lackey banded A3 piece of paper took up most of my time. It's not a compulsory subject though. I chose to do it in Year 9 and Year 12. I don't type their way and still have to look at the keyboard when I type, but it was useful in finding out where the keys are.

[Shryke]

i learned to touch type here at work

 

sort of out of necessity really

 

talking to someone on the phone while frantically trying to type down all the details

[Tigranes]

I learned to touch type on the forums.

 

That's when I was 11.

 

Yeah, I don't keep the same accounts.

[WITHTEETH]

Yeah, that's really weird because I stopped having to look at the toilet before I sit down. It just happens now!

I take it your butt has landed in toilet water then before?

[Kaftan Barlast]

I dont have to look at the keyboard but I still dont type properly, i kind of use my index fingers mostly. despite being raisd with a keyboard since I was but a neonate

[Dark_Raven]

I can type without looking at the keyboard

Sounds like someone wants a donut.

[Tale]

I use a blank keyboard at home.

[astr0creep]

Id o thecomp le te oppo s i te.

 

I do n'tloo k a tth e scree nwhe n Itype .

[Tale]

I neither need to look at the screen or the keyboard. In fact, usually, I can recognize when I'm making a typo by how my fingers move and correct accordingly.

 

This entire post has been typed with my eyes closed. I would like to do something longer, but I lack inspiration.

[Deraldin]

I neither need to look at the screen or the keyboard. In fact, usually, I can recognize when I'm making a typo by how my fingers move and correct accordingly.

 

This entire post has been typed with my eyes closed. I would like to do something longer, but I lack inspiration.

 

I do the same thing. Half of my posts here are written while watching the TV behind me, like this one here for example.

[taks]

i took typing in high school. 2 semesters, actually. looking at the keyboard actually slows me down, now. of course, i discovered the other day that i can no longer write legibly... it's actually becoming difficult to write since i do so much typing.

 

my uncle can type 120 wpm or so on a manual typewriter from what i have heard. i've watched him before, and he really flies, though i've apparently never seen him truly in stride. my dad once told me the typewriter would bounce when my uncle was typing at full speed. i can't use a manual at all...

 

taks

[taks]

i should add, my uncle doesn't type the "right" way, either. he is self-taught...

 

taks

[Tale]

Self-teaching isn't so hard. My only formal typing education comes from a semester of middle school typing that I blatantly ignored so I could play with QBasic.

 

Once competency sets in, education becomes pointless. 120 wpm is impressive, but it'd be impressive from anyone.

 

Edit: WAIT A SECOND?! A bloody TYPEWRITER? Jeremy Christmas. Okay, I'm impressed. 120 wpm untaught on a keyboard is one thing, on a typewriter is a whole other ballpark.

Edited January 10, 2008 by Tale

[Gfted1]

I neither need to look at the screen or the keyboard. In fact, usually, I can recognize when I'm making a typo by how my fingers move and correct accordingly.

 

This entire post has been typed with my eyes closed. I would like to do something longer, but I lack inspiration.

 

I do the same thing. Half of my posts here are written while watching the TV behind me, like this one here for example.

 

Nw rii.

 

Crap, that didnt work at all.

[@\NightandtheShape/@]

I haven't really looked at the keyboard in years.... I certainly ain't touch typing, I have a very gimped style...I cover qweasdzxc with my leff and Usually shift, the rest I do with my right hand... so it jumps around alot.... but heck I taught myself from the age of 4 or 5 so it's no surprise to me that it's an odd inefficient style.

[samm]

Except for the special signs that are at shift+number, I pretty much type without checking, and using all ten fingers as taught in the first two weeks of my "IT" course at age of thirteen or something. Often, when someone talks to me while I was typing something, I can focus on the person while finishing the sentence without concentrating or looking at the screen. However, I often have to edit my postings, but mostly English is the reason, not typos. That typing becomes automatical while my handwriting had really become unintellegible, even by me, got me thinking. Nowadays, I often take notes by hand, and write letters with my fountain pen (?), so by now it's become a bit easier to decode what I scribble on paper

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I barely look at the keyboard anymore, only a glance from time to time because I wrote something wrong.

[Oerwinde]

I don't touch type and I found myself not having to look at the keyboard when I type either. Sometimes it means I hit two keys at once though. Its probably not the most efficient method of typing, but what works works I spose.

[Pidesco]

When typing I use the three middle fingers of my left hand and the pointer and the middle from my right hand. The strange thing is that I never use my left thumb, even though it's effectively resting on the space bar the whole time I type. Also, I only look at the screen to correct typos, which may happen during the writing (if I notice the typos right after making them), or only after the writing. I'm very fast with the fingers I do use, I just don't use that many fingers in typing.